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Confessions Of An English Opium-Eater
By Thomas De Quincey
This autobiographical account of his opium addiction is De Quincey's most
famous work and was first published in 1822, although an enlarged edition
was published in 1856. Like Coleridge at around the same time, De Quincey
took opium initially to ease physical pain but increased the dosage enough
to become addicted. The book consists of eloquent descriptions in a
prose-poetic style of the psychological effects of the drug. His childhood
experiences become symbolic visions and the story has much in common with
the novel of the period where the psychology of the individual played an
increasingly im****tant part, especially in the book's latter stages. De
Quincey shows us the extreme euphoria of his initial experiences with
opium
but also do***ents the darkness and the nightmares conferred by the later
stages to which is dedicated a more haunting prose style less redolent of
the beautiful rhetoric of Milton or Thomas Browne. The book is also
im****tant for being one of the first to empathise and focus on childhood
suffering as Dickens would later in the nineteenth century.
Heritage Press, New York, 1950. Marbled Boards. Book Condition: Good.
Twelve
Gravures by Zhenya Gay. Special edition. In Good slipcase with the same
decorative pattern as the book covers.. Green marbled boards, black cloth
spine with gilt lettering, all edges red. The contents are clean and
tight.
One of the more handsome Heritage productions, perfectly capturing the
dark
tenor of the book, both in its materials as well as in Gay's striking
gravures. 78 pages.
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